I hope he'll feel better soon. Maybe a vet could advise you on how to treat his fleas in the future. I wonder if his crisis could have been caused by an allergic reaction to some chemical in the spray. At any rate, good luck.

Thank you. It is weird, I would lightly spray it just in those areas or I would put a bit in a bowl/old medicine bottle n use a q-tip to dab it on.

I'm glad to hear your cat is ok. But Duchess is right, you might want to get it checked by a vet...for more than the one reason. Who knows what some fleas may carry. They may have infected your cat with something.

I am on a payment plan with the vet and I am going to be volunteering there to pay off the pet bills. I can't afford them. I work part-time and I feed 7 cats plus my little rescue dog. I cannot part with them...it is not fair to them for me to give them away and also change owners. Who knows if they would love them or take them to a shelter. But I never would get rid of them. I sacrifice my daily meals for them.

Thankfully, my boyfriend is buying my airline ticket to visit him to Europe and he is also paying the costs of getting her her shots/microchip and paying to get her over there. My brother refuses to watch her. When I am away, she is a nightmare and almost gave him a nervous breakdown.

It always happens on the weekend don't it? And the emergency vet is so expensive.

Keep a close eye on him, if he even starts to worsen bring him in ASAP. The fan is a good idea but I would be concerned about dehydration. Pull on the fur at the back of his neck, it should snap back immediately. If not he may need an IV, and that means the emergency clinic, unless you have an IV bag.

It always happens on the weekend don't it? And the emergency vet is so expensive.

Keep a close eye on him, if he even starts to worsen bring him in ASAP. The fan is a good idea but I would be concerned about dehydration. Pull on the fur at the back of his neck, it should snap back immediately. If not he may need an IV, and that means the emergency clinic, unless you have an IV bag.

Yes, a Saturday night! He told me bring him to the hospital. I said, "I don't have 500 to go to an emergency vet! By the visit and what they will do, it will cost me around $500!" Also the emergency vet is probably a half hour away. I was afraid if I took him in the car w/o constantly treating him, he would have died/choked on the foaming.

I just checked on him. He is moving around but doesn't want me to bother him.

One other idea, for allergic reactions Benedryl is good. Dose is half of a 25mg tablet. It may induce more foaming at the mouth, they HATE the taste. But it sounds like the reaction has passed, so probably best to let him rest.

The vet I saw today likes Revolution over Advantage Multi, he thinks its a little easier on them. But all my vets agree the flea sprays are to be avoided.

Flea combs are also a safe way to get them off but is very time consuming. I used to do that on the kittens when they were too young for the Advantage.

This is not for Kitty0812's immediate problem, but for the rest of you.

Consult a vet before applying any sort of flea medicine to your cats.

If your cat is an indoor and outdoor cat, then I understand why you would have to try something like a dip or flea collar. That is when a vet's advice is probably most crucial.

We used to have our cats as both indoor and outdoor, but due to coyotes, we switched to strictly indoor.

When you have an indoor cat, more things are possible than with an inner and outer type cat; i.e. you can take measures to permanently eliminate the fleas.

We did this with one of those flea hormone type medicines, they type which keeps the fleas at the larvae stage. Flea larvae feed on blood poop from adult fleas, so if all of the fleas are larvae, they both starve and never reproduce. This eradicates them permanently.

It is easier for a flea eradication designer to make a safe flea hormone product than it is for him to make a safe flea spray or dip. The reason is that while both cats and fleas have nervous systems, only fleas have a larval stage; cats do not.

It is much harder for a designer to make a chemical that attacks the flea's nervous system and leaves the cat's nervous system alone than it is to make a product which attacks just the flea's larval stage and leaves the cat alone. The first is something which works by subtle gradations of effects, whereas the latter is an on and off kind of thing.

A synthetic flea hormone which wrecks havoc on the flea's life cycle will likely be seen by the cat's physiology as a nonsense chemical, just organic chemical garbage to be excreted in its urine or metabolized a bit in the liver and then excreted. That's why it can be fed to the cat and delivered to the fleas via the cat's bloodstream, because the cat's body interprets it as more or less neutral garbage to be gotten rid of.

The rule is this: the more alike the biochemical properties of the systems of two different animals are, the harder it is to find a chemical which reacts with one and not the other. The more different they are, the easier it is to find something. Picking a target like one organism having a larval stage while the other one doesn't is probably about as good as this sort of biochemical discrimination gets.

Yes, a Saturday night! He told me bring him to the hospital. I said, "I don't have 500 to go to an emergency vet! By the visit and what they will do, it will cost me around $500!" Also the emergency vet is probably a half hour away. I was afraid if I took him in the car w/o constantly treating him, he would have died/choked on the foaming.

I just checked on him. He is moving around but doesn't want me to bother him.

Thank you all for your advice and your kind/supporting words.

If he's not dehydrated and not worsening, probably no need for the emergency vet. It sounds like the worst has passed. I think you did really good with the peroxide!

I think you over did it. Frontline is meant to be put in one spot only, usually at the nape of the neck where your feline friend can't groom himself. Frontline is very powerful that is all you need not the other treatments on top of it. Don't put your friend at risk like that, just stick to Frontline and he'll be OK.